Manziel, the Cleveland Browns rookie quarterback, arrived Friday for the NFL Players Association Rookie Premiere, to join about 40 of his fellow draft classmates at the union’s first big marketing event.

Manziel spent a few minutes playing Pop-a-Shot and ping pong with other players before heading into a private conference room inside a Hollywood hotel to begin signing his autographs on thousands of trading cards and visiting with other NFL sponsors and NFL Players Inc. licensees like EA Sports.

Manziel’s lunchtime arrival created a buzz on the second floor of the Lowes Hollywood Hotel, as he joined the other rookies who traveled to Los Angeles earlier in the week. Manziel participated in Browns’ practice on Wednesday and flew out of Cleveland Friday morning.

Manziel is one of three Cleveland Browns rookies here, along with running back Terrance West and fellow quarterback Connor Shaw, who arrived here in time for the opening orientation events on Thursday morning.

Manziel, through his representatives, declined media interviews upon his arrival at the Rookie Premiere.

Manziel and other rookies will don their authentic team uniforms for the first time Saturday morning for photo shoots at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.